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Sea of Gray: The Around-The-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah
by Chaffin, Tom
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Good condition
- ISBN 10
- 0809085046
- ISBN 13
- 9780809085040
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About This Item
New York: Hill & Wang, 2006. Uncorrected Proof. Trade paperback. Good condition. 400 pages. Notes. Bibliography. No dust jacket as issued. Cover has some wear and soiling. The CSS "Shenandoah" commenced the last, most quixotic sea story of the Civil War. Before its voyage was over, 34 Union merchant and whaling ships and their cargoes would be sunk. Four months after the Civil War was over, the captain learned the war was over, and he had gone from being an enemy combatant to a pirate, a hangable offense. The story of 58, 000-mile, around-the-world cruise of the Confederacy's last ship afloat. Launched secretly from England in October, 1864, the CSS Shenandoah became the Confederacy's second most successful merchant raider, but--after rounding Africa's Cape of Good Hope, stopping long enough in Australia to cause a diplomatic crisis, and navigating the ice floes of Siberia's Sea of Okhotsk, the Bering Sea, and the Arctic Ocean--Captain Waddell learned that he had been fighting without cause or state.
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- Seller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 57729
- Title
- Sea of Gray: The Around-The-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah
- Author
- Chaffin, Tom
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Uncorrected Proof
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0809085046
- ISBN 13
- 9780809085040
- Publisher
- Hill & Wang
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2006
- Keywords
- Confederacy, Bering Sea, Okhotsk, Ascension Island, Circumnavigation, James Waddell, Pirate, Enemy Combatant, Whaling Ships, Alden Potter
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